#: 5044 S10/Tandy CoCo
    10-Jul-90  14:15:14
Sb: #5043-#Dedicated CoCo3
Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

Pete,
     I guess I have to do some more thinking about what I want. I was thinking
along the lines of eliminating the floppy drives, but after some more thought I
guess the drives would make it alot easier to change/update any of the control
routines. Maybe I should be thinking along the lines of a solid-state drive
with battery backup. Another possibility I guess would be to modify the CoCo3
so that if the power drops out the memory would be saved by a battery backup
system. I'm just not sure how OS9 would react. If a circuit detected that the
power has fallen below a set point, and this circuit then put the memory on
battery power while killing the power to the rest of the computer, how would
OS9 react when the power was restored? Would it start up from where it left off
?
   Just thinking out loud
      Larry Olson



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